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022 - Bk 6 pt 3 · Anabasis

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Speaker 1: Book six, Part three of Xenophon's Anabasas. This is a
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Speaker 1: Recording by BG Oxford Anabasas by Xenophon, translated by H. G. Dakins,
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Speaker 1: Book six, Part three, number five. And so they spent
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Speaker 1: the night, but with day dawn, the generals led the
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Speaker 1: way to the natural fastness, and the others picked up
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Speaker 1: their arms and baggage and followed the lead. Before the
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Speaker 1: breakfast hour arrived, they had fenced off with a ditch,
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Speaker 1: the only side on which lay ingress into the place,
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Speaker 1: and had palisaded off the whole, leaving only three gates anon.
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Speaker 1: A ship from Heraclea arrived, bringing barleymeal, victim, animals, and wine.
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Speaker 1: Xenophon was up betimes and made the usual offering before
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Speaker 1: starting on an expedition, and at the first victim the
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Speaker 1: sacrifice was favorable. Just as the sacrifice ended, the seer Arexion,
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Speaker 1: the Parhesian, caught sight of an eagle, which boded well
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Speaker 1: and bade Xenophon lead on. So they crossed the trench
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Speaker 1: and grounded arms. Then proclamation was made by Harold for
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Speaker 1: the soldiers to breakfast and start on an expedition under arms.
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Speaker 1: The mob of sutlers and the captured slaves would be
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Speaker 1: left in camp. Accordingly, the mass of troops set out
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Speaker 1: Naon alone remained, for it seemed best to leave that
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Speaker 1: general and his men to guard the contents of the camp.
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Speaker 1: But when the officers and soldiers had left them in
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Speaker 1: the lurch, they were so ashamed to stop in camp
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Speaker 1: while the rest marched out, that they too set out,
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Speaker 1: leaving only those above five and forty years of age.
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Speaker 1: These then stayed while the rest set out on the march.
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Speaker 1: Before they had gone two miles, they stumbled upon dead bodies,
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Speaker 1: And when they had brought up the rear of the
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Speaker 1: column in a line with the first bodies to be seen,
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Speaker 1: they began digging graves and burying all included in the
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Speaker 1: column from end to end. After burying the first batch,
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Speaker 1: they advanced and again, bringing the rear even with the
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Speaker 1: first unburied bodies which appeared. They buried in the same
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Speaker 1: way all which the line of troops included, finally reaching
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Speaker 1: the road that led out of the villages, where the
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Speaker 1: bodies lay thick together, they collected them and laid them
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Speaker 1: in a common grave. It was now about mid day when,
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Speaker 1: pushing forward the troops up to the villages without entering them,
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Speaker 1: they proceeded to seize provisions, laying hands on everything they
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Speaker 1: could set eyes on under cover of their line, when
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Speaker 1: suddenly they caught sight of the enemy cresting certain hillocks
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Speaker 1: in front of them, duly marshaled in line a large
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Speaker 1: body of cavalry and infantry. It was Spithridatis and Rathenus,
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Speaker 1: sent by Pharnabazas, with their forces at their backs. As
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Speaker 1: soon as the enemy caught sight of the Hellens, they
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Speaker 1: stood still about two miles distant. Then Arexion the seer sacrificed,
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Speaker 1: and at the first essay the victims were favorable. Whereupon
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Speaker 1: Xenophon addressed the other generals. I would advise, Sirs, that
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Speaker 1: we should detach one or more flying columns to support
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Speaker 1: our main attack, so that in case of need at
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Speaker 1: any point, we may have reserves in readiness to assist
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Speaker 1: our main body, and the enemy, in the confusion of
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Speaker 1: a battle, may find himself attacking the unbroken lines of
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Speaker 1: troops not hitherto engaged. These views approved themselves to all.
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Speaker 1: Do you, then, he said, lead on the vanguard straight
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Speaker 1: at the enemy. Do not let us stand parleying here.
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Speaker 1: Now that we have caught sight of him and he
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Speaker 1: of us, I will detach the hindmost companies in the
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Speaker 1: way we have decided upon, and follow you. After that,
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Speaker 1: they quietly advanced, and he withdrawing the rear rank companies
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Speaker 1: in three brigades, consisting of a couple of hundred men.
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Speaker 1: Apiece commissioned the first on the right to follow the
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Speaker 1: main body at the distance of a hundred feet. Samolas
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Speaker 1: the Achaean was in command of this brigade. The duty
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Speaker 1: of the second, under the command of Pirias the Arcadian,
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Speaker 1: was to follow in the center. The last was posted
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Speaker 1: on the left, with Phrasius the Athenian in command. As
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Speaker 1: they advanced, the vanguard reached a large and difficult woody
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Speaker 1: glen and halted. Not knowing whether the obstacle needed to
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Speaker 1: be crossed or not, they passed down the word for
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Speaker 1: the generals and officers to come forward to the front. Xenophon,
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Speaker 1: wondering what it was that stopped the march, and presently
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Speaker 1: hearing the above order, passed along the ranks. Rode up
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Speaker 1: with all speed. As soon as they were met. Sophenetus,
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Speaker 1: as the eldest general, stated his opinion that the question
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Speaker 1: whether a gully of that kind ought to be crossed
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Speaker 1: or not was not worth discussing. Xenophon with some ardor retorted,
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Speaker 1: you know, sirs, I have not been in the habit.
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Speaker 1: Heretofore of introducing you to danger which you might avoid.
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Speaker 1: It is not your reputation for courage, surely that is
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Speaker 1: at stake, but your safe return home. But now the
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Speaker 1: matter stands thus it is impossible to retire from this
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Speaker 1: point without a battle. If we do not advance against
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Speaker 1: the enemy ourselves, he will follow us as soon as
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Speaker 1: we have turned our backs and attack us. Consider then,
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Speaker 1: is it better to go and meet the foe with
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Speaker 1: arms advanced, or with arms reversed, to watch him as
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Speaker 1: he assails us on our rear. You know this at
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Speaker 1: any rate, that to retire before an enemy has nothing
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Speaker 1: glorious about it, whereas attack engenders courage even in a coward.
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Speaker 1: For my part, I would rather at any time attack
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Speaker 1: with half my men than retreat with twice the number.
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Speaker 1: As to these fellows, if we attack them, I am
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Speaker 1: sure you do not really expect them to await us,
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Speaker 1: though if we retreat we know for certain they will
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Speaker 1: be emboldened to pursue us. Nay, if the result of
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Speaker 1: crossing is to place a difficult gully behind us when
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Speaker 1: we are on the point of engaging, surely that is
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Speaker 1: an advantage worth seizing. At least, if it were left
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Speaker 1: to me, I would choose that everything should appear smooth
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Speaker 1: and passable to the enemy, which may invite retreat. But
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Speaker 1: for ourselves we may bless the ground which teaches us
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Speaker 1: that accept in victory we have no deliverance. It astonishes
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Speaker 1: me that any one should deem this particular gully a
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Speaker 1: whit more trouble than any of the other barriers which
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Speaker 1: we have successfully passed. How impassable was the plain had
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Speaker 1: we failed to conquer their cavalry, how insurmountable the mountains
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Speaker 1: already traversed by us, with all their pell tasks in
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Speaker 1: hot pursuit at our heels. Nay, when we have safely
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Speaker 1: reached the sea, the Pontus will present a somewhat formidable
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Speaker 1: gully when we have neither vessels to convey us away
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Speaker 1: nor corn to keep us alive whilst we stop. But
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Speaker 1: we shall no sooner be there than we must be
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Speaker 1: off again to get provisions. Surely it is better to
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Speaker 1: fight to day after a good breakfast than tomorrow on
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Speaker 1: an empty stomach. Sirs, the offerings are favorable to us,
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Speaker 1: the omens are propitious, the victims more than promising. Let
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Speaker 1: us attack the enemy now that they have had a
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Speaker 1: good look at us. These fellows must not be allowed
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Speaker 1: to enjoy their dinners or choose a camp at their
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Speaker 1: own sweet will. After that, the officers bade him lead on.
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Speaker 1: None gainsaid, and he led the way. His orders were
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Speaker 1: to cross the gully, where each man chanced to find himself.
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Speaker 1: By this method, as it seemed to him, the troops
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Speaker 1: would more quickly mass themselves on the far side than
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Speaker 1: was possible if thee defiled along the bridge which spanned
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Speaker 1: the gully. But once across, he passed along the line
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Speaker 1: and addressed the troops, Sirs, call to mind, what by
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Speaker 1: help of the gods you have already done. Bethink you
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Speaker 1: of the battles you have won at close quarters with
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Speaker 1: the foe of the fate which awaits those who flee
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Speaker 1: before their foes. Forget not that we stand at the
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Speaker 1: very doors of hellas follow in the steps of Heracles
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Speaker 1: our Guide, and cheer each the other onwards by name,
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Speaker 1: sweet word It surely by some brave and noble word
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Speaker 1: or deed spoken or done this day, to leave the
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Speaker 1: memory of one's self in the hearts of those one loves.
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Speaker 1: These words were spoken as he rode past, and simultaneously
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Speaker 1: he began leading on the troops in battle line, and
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Speaker 1: placing the peltasts on either flank of the main body.
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Speaker 1: They moved against the enemy along the line. The order
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Speaker 1: had sped to keep their spears at rest on the
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Speaker 1: right shoulder until the bugle signal, then lower them for
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Speaker 1: the charge. Slow march and even pace, no one to
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Speaker 1: quicken into a run. Lastly, the watchword was passed Zeus
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Speaker 1: the Savior, Heracles our Guide. The enemy waited their approach,
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Speaker 1: confident in the excellence of his position, But as they
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Speaker 1: drew closer, the helen Light troops, with a loud a
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Speaker 1: la llah, without waiting for the order, dashed against the
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Speaker 1: foe on their side, came forward eagerly to meet the charge.
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Speaker 1: Both the cavalry and the mass of the Bithians, and
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Speaker 1: these turned the peltast. But when the counterwave the phalanx
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Speaker 1: of the heavy infantry, rapidly advancing, faced them, and at
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Speaker 1: the same time the bugle sounded and the battle hymn
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Speaker 1: rose from all lips. And after this a loud cheer rose,
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Speaker 1: and at the same instant they couched their spears. At
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Speaker 1: this conjuncture, the enemy no longer welcomed them, but fled timasion.
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Speaker 1: With his cavalry followed close, and considering their scant numbers,
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Speaker 1: they did great execution. It was the left wing of
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Speaker 1: the enemy, in a line with which the Helen cavalry
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Speaker 1: were posted, that was so speedily scattered, but the right,
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Speaker 1: which was not so hotly pursued, collected upon a knoll,
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Speaker 1: and when the Helens saw them standing firm, it seemed
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Speaker 1: the easiest and least dangerous course to go against them
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Speaker 1: at once, raising the battle hymn. They straightway fell upon them,
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Speaker 1: but the others did not await their coming. Thereupon the
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Speaker 1: Peltasts gave chase until the right of the enemy was
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Speaker 1: in its turn scattered, though with slight loss in killed,
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Speaker 1: for the enemy's cavalry was numerous and threatening. But when
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Speaker 1: the Helens saw the cavalry of Farnabasis still standing in compact, order,
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Speaker 1: and the Bithian horsemen massing together as if to join it,
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Speaker 1: and like spectators gazing down from a knoll at the
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Speaker 1: occurrences below. Though weary, they determined to attack the enemy
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Speaker 1: as best they could, and did not suffer him to
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Speaker 1: recover breath with reviving courage. So they formed in compact
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Speaker 1: line and advanced. Thereupon, the hostile cavalry turned and fled
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Speaker 1: down the steep as swiftly as if they had been
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Speaker 1: pursued by cavalry. In fact, they sought the shelter of
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Speaker 1: a gully, the existence of which was unknown to the Helens.
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Speaker 1: The latter accordingly turned aside too soon and gave up
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Speaker 1: the chase, for it was too late. Returning to the
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Speaker 1: point where the first encounter took place, they erected a
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Speaker 1: trophy and went back to the sea. About sunset, it
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Speaker 1: was something like seven miles to Camp number six. After this,
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Speaker 1: the enemy confined themselves to their own concerns and removed
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Speaker 1: their households and property as far away as possible. The Hellens,
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Speaker 1: on their side were still awaiting the arrival of Cleander
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Speaker 1: with the ships of war and transports, which ought to
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Speaker 1: be there soon, so each day they went out with
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Speaker 1: the baggage animals and slaves, and fearlessly brought in wheat
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Speaker 1: and barley, wine and vegetables, millet and figs. Since the
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Speaker 1: district produced all good things the olive alone, excepted when
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Speaker 1: the army stayed in camp to rest, pillaging parties were
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Speaker 1: allowed to go out, and those who went out appropriated
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Speaker 1: the spoils. But when the whole army went out, if
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Speaker 1: anyone went off apart and seized anything, it was voted
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Speaker 1: to be public property. Ere long, there was an ample
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Speaker 1: abundance of supplies of all sorts for Marketables arrived from
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Speaker 1: Hellenic cities on all sides, and marts were established. Mariners coasting,
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Speaker 1: by hearing that a city was being founded and that
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Speaker 1: there was a harbor, were glad to put in. Even
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Speaker 1: the hostile tribes dwelling in the neighborhood presently began to
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Speaker 1: send envoys to Xenophon. It was he who was forming
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Speaker 1: the place into a city, as they understood, and they
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Speaker 1: would be glad to learn on what terms they might
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Speaker 1: secure his friendship. He made a point of introducing these
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Speaker 1: visitors to his soldiers. Meanwhile, Cleander arrived with two ships
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Speaker 1: of war, but not a single transport. At the moment
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Speaker 1: of his arrival, as it happened, the army had taken
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Speaker 1: the field, and a separate party had gone off on
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Speaker 1: a pillaging expedition into the hills and had captured a
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Speaker 1: number of small cattle. In their apprehension of being deprived
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Speaker 1: of them, these same people spoke to Dysippus, this was
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Speaker 1: the same man who had made off from Trapezus with
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Speaker 1: the fifty ord galley, and urged him to save their
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Speaker 1: sheep for them. Take some for yourself, said they, and
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Speaker 1: give the rest back to us. So, without more ado,
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Speaker 1: he drove off the soldiers standing near, who kept repeating
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Speaker 1: that the spoil was public property. Then off he went
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Speaker 1: to Cleander. Here is an attempt, said he at robbery.
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Speaker 1: Clander bade him to bring up the culprit to him.
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Speaker 1: Decippus seized on some one and was for hailing him
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Speaker 1: to the Spartan governor. Just then Agassius came across him
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Speaker 1: and rescued the man, who was a member of his company,
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Speaker 1: and the rest of the soldiers present set to work
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Speaker 1: to stone Decippus, calling him traitor. Things looked so ill
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Speaker 1: that a number of the crew of the ships of
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Speaker 1: war took fright and fled to the sea, and with
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Speaker 1: the rest Cleander himself. Xenophon and the other generals tried
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Speaker 1: to hold the men back, assuring Cleander that the affair
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Speaker 1: signified nothing at all, and that the origin of it
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Speaker 1: was a decree passed by the army that was to
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Speaker 1: blame if anything. But Clander, goaded by Dysippus and personally
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Speaker 1: annoyed at the fright which he had experienced, threatened to
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Speaker 1: sail away and publish an interdict against them, forbidding any
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Speaker 1: city to receive them as being public enemies, for at
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Speaker 1: this date the Lacedaemonians held sway over the whole Hellenic world.
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Speaker 1: Thereat the affair began to wear an ugly look, and
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Speaker 1: the helens begged and implored Cleander to reconsider his intention.
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Speaker 1: He replied that he would be as good as his word,
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Speaker 1: and that nothing should stop him unless the man who
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Speaker 1: set the example of stoning, with the other who rescued
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Speaker 1: the prisoner, were given up to him. Now one of
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Speaker 1: the two whose persons were thus demanded. Agassius had been
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Speaker 1: a friend to Xenophon throughout, and that was just why
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Speaker 1: Dysippus was all the more anxious to accuse him. In
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Speaker 1: their perplexity, the general summoned a full meeting of the soldiers,
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Speaker 1: and some speakers were disposed to make very light of
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Speaker 1: Cleander and set him at naught. But Xenophon took a
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Speaker 1: more serious view of the matter. He rose and addressed
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Speaker 1: the meeting. Thus, soldiers, I cannot say that I feel
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Speaker 1: disposed to make light of this business. If Cleander be
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Speaker 1: allowed to go away, as he threatens to do in
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Speaker 1: his present temper toward us. There are Hellenic cities close by,
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Speaker 1: But then the Lacedaemonians are the lords of Hellas, and
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Speaker 1: they can any one of them carry out whatever they
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Speaker 1: like in the city. If then the first thing this
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Speaker 1: Lacedaemonian does is to close the gates of Byzantium, and
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Speaker 1: next to pass an order to the other governors, city
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Speaker 1: by city not to receive us, because we are a
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Speaker 1: set of lawless ruffians, disloyaled the Lacedaemonians. And if further
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Speaker 1: this report of us should reach the ears of their
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Speaker 1: admiral Anassebius, to stay or to sail away will alike
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Speaker 1: be difficult. Remember the Lacedaemonians at the present time our
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Speaker 1: lords alike on land and on sea for the sake
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Speaker 1: then of a single man, or for two men's sake.
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Speaker 1: It is not right that the rest of us should
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Speaker 1: be debarred from Hellas. But whatever they enjoin we must obey.
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Speaker 1: Do not the cities which gave us birth yield them obedience?
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Speaker 1: Also for my own part, inasmuch as Dysippus I believe,
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Speaker 1: keeps telling Clander that Agassius would never have done this
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Speaker 1: had not I Xenophon bidden him. I absolve you of
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Speaker 1: all complicity, and Agassius too. If Agassius himself states that
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Speaker 1: I am in any way a prime mover in this matter.
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Speaker 1: If I have set the fashion of stone throwing or
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Speaker 1: any other sort of violence, I condemn myself. I say
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Speaker 1: that I deserve the extreme penalty, and I will submit
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Speaker 1: to undergo it. I further say that if anyone else
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Speaker 1: is accused, that man is bound to surrender himself to
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Speaker 1: Cleander for judgment, For by this means you will be
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Speaker 1: absolved entirely from the accusation. But as the matter now stands,
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Speaker 1: it is cruel that, just when we are aspiring to
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Speaker 1: win praise and honor throughout Hellas, we are destined to
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Speaker 1: sink below the level of the rest of the world
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Speaker 1: ban from the Hellenic cities whose common name we boast.
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Speaker 1: After him, Agassius got up and said, I swear to you, sirs,
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Speaker 1: by the gods and goddesses verily, and indeed, neither Xenophon
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Speaker 1: nor any one else among you bade me rescue the man.
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Speaker 1: I saw an honest man, one of my own company,
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Speaker 1: being taken up by Dysippus, the man who betrayed you.
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Speaker 1: As you know full well that I could not endure,
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Speaker 1: I rescued him. I admit the fact, Do not you
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Speaker 1: deliver me up? I will surrender myself. As Xenophons suggests
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Speaker 1: to Cleander, to pass what verdict on me he thinks right,
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Speaker 1: Do not, for the sake of such a matter, make
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Speaker 1: foes of the Lacedaemonians. Rather, God grant that each of
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Speaker 1: you may safely reach the goal of his desire. Only
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Speaker 1: do you choose from among yourselves, and send with me
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Speaker 1: to Cleander, those who, in case of any omission on
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Speaker 1: my part, may, by their words and acts, supply what
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Speaker 1: is lacking. Thereupon, the army granted him to choose for
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Speaker 1: himself whom he would have go with him, and to go,
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Speaker 1: And he at once chose the generals. After this, they
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Speaker 1: all set off to Cleander Agassius and the generals, and
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Speaker 1: the man who had been rescued by Agassius and the
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Speaker 1: generals spoke as follows. The army has sent us to you, Cleander,
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Speaker 1: and this is their bidding. If you have fault to
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Speaker 1: find withal, they say, you ought to pass sentence on
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Speaker 1: all and do with them what seems best. Or if
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Speaker 1: the charge is against one man, or two, or possibly several,
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Speaker 1: what they expect of these people is to surrender themselves
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Speaker 1: to you for judgment. Accordingly, if you lay anything to
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Speaker 1: the charge of us generals, here we stand at your bar.
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Speaker 1: Or do you impute the fault to some one not
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Speaker 1: here tell us whom Short of flying in the face
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Speaker 1: of our authority, there is no one who will absent himself.
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Speaker 1: At this point Agassius stepped forward and said, it was I, Cleander,
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Speaker 1: who rescued the man before you Yonder from Dysippus, when
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Speaker 1: the latter was carrying him off, and it was I
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Speaker 1: who gave the order to strike Dysippus. My plea is
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Speaker 1: that I know the prisoner to be an honest man.
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Speaker 1: As to Dysippus, I know that he was chosen by
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Speaker 1: the army to command a fifty oared galley, which we
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Speaker 1: had obtained by request from the men of Trapezus, for
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Speaker 1: the express purpose of collecting vessels to carry us safely home.
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Speaker 1: But this same Dysippus betrayed his fellow soldiers with whom
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Speaker 1: he had been delivered from so many perils, and made
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Speaker 1: off into hiding like a runaway slave. Whereby we have
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Speaker 1: robbed the Trapezuntines of their frigate, and must needs appear
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Speaker 1: as knaves in their eyes for this man's sake, as
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Speaker 1: to ourselves, as far as he could, he has ruined us, for,
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Speaker 1: like the rest of us, he had heard how all
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Speaker 1: but impossible it was for us to retreat by foot
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Speaker 1: across the rivers and to reach Hellas in safety. That
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Speaker 1: is the stamp of man whom I robbed of his prey. Now,
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Speaker 1: had it been you yourself who carried him off, or
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Speaker 1: one of your emissaries, or indeed any one short of
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Speaker 1: a run away from ourselves, be sure that I should
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Speaker 1: have acted far otherwise. Be assured that if you put
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Speaker 1: me to death at this time, you are sacrificing a good,
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Speaker 1: honest man for the sake of a coward and a scamp.
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Speaker 1: When he had listened to these remarks, Clander replied that
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Speaker 1: if such had been the conduct of Dysippus, he could
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Speaker 1: not congratulate him. But still, he added, turning to the generals,
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Speaker 1: where Dysippus, ever so great a scamp, he ought not
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Speaker 1: to suffer violence, but in the language of your own demand,
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Speaker 1: he was entitled to a fair trial, and so to
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Speaker 1: obtain his deserts. What I have to say at present, therefore,
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Speaker 1: is leave your friend here and go your way, and
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Speaker 1: when I give the order, be present at the trial.
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Speaker 1: I have no further charge against the army or any one.
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Speaker 1: Since the prisoner himself admits that he rescued the man.
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Speaker 1: Then the man who had been rescued said, in behalf
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Speaker 1: of myself, Clander, if you possibly think that I was
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Speaker 1: being taken up for some misdeed, it is not so.
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Speaker 1: I neither struck nor shot. I merely said, the sheep
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Speaker 1: are public property. For it was a resolution of the
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Speaker 1: soldiers that whenever the army went out as a body,
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Speaker 1: any booty privately obtained was to be public property. That
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Speaker 1: was all I said. And thereupon yonder Fellow seized me
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Speaker 1: and began dragging me off. He wanted to stop our
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Speaker 1: mouths so that he might have a share of the
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Speaker 1: things himself and keep the rest for these buccaneers, contrary
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Speaker 1: to the ordinance. In answer to that, Cleander said, very well,
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Speaker 1: if that is your disposition, you can stay behind two,
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Speaker 1: and we will take your case into consideration. Also thereupon,
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Speaker 1: Clander and his party proceeded to breakfast. But Xenophon collected
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Speaker 1: the army in assembly and advised their sending deputation to
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Speaker 1: Cleander to intercede in behalf of the men. Accordingly, it
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Speaker 1: was resolved to send some generals and officers with Dracontius
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Speaker 1: the Spartan, and of the rest those who seemed best
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Speaker 1: fitted to go. The deputation was to request Cleander by
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Speaker 1: all means to release the two men. Accordingly, Xenophon came
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Speaker 1: and addressed him, thus, Clander, you have the men. The
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Speaker 1: army has bowed to you and assented to do what
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Speaker 1: you wished with respect to these two members of their
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Speaker 1: body and themselves in general. But now they beg and
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Speaker 1: pray you to give up these two men, and not
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Speaker 1: to put them to death. Many a good service had
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Speaker 1: these two wrought for our army in pass days. Let them,
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Speaker 1: but obtain this from you, And in return the army
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Speaker 1: promises that if you will put yourself at their head,
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Speaker 1: and the gracious gods approve, they will show you how
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Speaker 1: orderly they are, how apt to obey their general, and
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Speaker 1: with Heaven's help, to face their foes unflinchingly. They make
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Speaker 1: this further request to you, that you will present yourself
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Speaker 1: and take command of them, and make trial of them.
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Speaker 1: Test us ourselves, they say, and test Dysippus what each
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Speaker 1: of us is like, and afterwards assigned to each his due.
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Speaker 1: When Cleander heard these things, he answered, nay, by the
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Speaker 1: twin gods, I will answer you quickly enough. Here I
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Speaker 1: make you a present of the two men, and I will,
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Speaker 1: as you say, present myself, And then, if the gods vouchsafe,
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Speaker 1: I will put myself at your head and lead you
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Speaker 1: into Hellas very different is your language from the tale
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Speaker 1: I used to hear concerning you from certain people, that
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Speaker 1: you wanted to withdraw the army from allegiance to the Lacedaemonians.
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Speaker 1: After this, the deputation thanked him and retired, taking with
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Speaker 1: them the two men. Then Cleander sacrificed as a preliminary
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Speaker 1: to marching and consorted friendly with Xenophon, and the two
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Speaker 1: struck up an alliance. When the Spartans saw with what
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Speaker 1: good discipline the men carried out their orders, he was
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Speaker 1: still more anxious to become their leader. However, in spite
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Speaker 1: of sacrifices repeated on three successive days, the victims steadily
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Speaker 1: remained unfavorable. So he summoned the generals and said to them,
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Speaker 1: the victims smile not on me. They suffer me not
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Speaker 1: to lead you home, But be not out of heart
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Speaker 1: at that. To you it is given as it would appear,
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Speaker 1: to bring your men safe home forwards then, and for
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Speaker 1: our part, whenever you come yonder, we will bestow on
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Speaker 1: you as warm a welcome as we may. Then the
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Speaker 1: soldiers resolved to make him a present of the public cattle,
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Speaker 1: which he accepted, but again gave back to them. So
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Speaker 1: he sailed away. But the soldiers made division of the
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Speaker 1: corn which they had collected and of the other captured property,
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Speaker 1: and commenced their homeward march through the territory of the Bythians.
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Speaker 1: At first they confined themselves to the main road, but
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Speaker 1: not chancing upon anything whereby they might reach a friendly
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Speaker 1: territory with something in their pockets for themselves, they resolved
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Speaker 1: to turn sharp round, and marched for one day and
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Speaker 1: night in the opposite direction. By this proceeding they captured
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Speaker 1: many slaves and much small cattle, and on the sixth
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Speaker 1: day they reached Chrysopolis in Chalcedonia. Here they halted seven
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Speaker 1: days while they disposed of their booty by sale. End
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Speaker 1: of book six. Recording by B. G. Oxford